The next day, in a head-spinning press conference at Trump Tower that was meant to be about infrastructure, he doubled down on his original comments , essentially taking back his denunciation and suggesting that some of the white nationalists were "very fine people". [Full Article...]
The New York Daily News put the instantly iconic Trump Baby blimp to creative use on its Saturday front page (above left) to illustrate the extent to which Vladimir Putin seems to have the USA president on a leash. 'I saw that as a gift to us in the sense that the balloon is a tool to enable us to go after the president in a humor kind of way, ' Jimenez told NJ Advance Media , adding that he wo... [Full Article...]
These protests, unlike many in the past-such as the anticorruption protests called by the nationalist Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr a year ago, which ended in the storming and occupation of the heavily fortified "Green Zone" surrounding government buildings and diplomatic missions in the heart of Baghdad-are fundamentally of a class rather than sectarian character. [Full Article...]
Senator John McCain (Republican-Arizona) receives the Liberty Medal from the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, October 16, 2017. At his press conference earlier in the day, Trump mentioned Coats, who was a senator from in and ambassador to Germany, by name in his remarks. [Full Article...]
Mandalay Bay hotel and casino's corporate owner MGM has filed a lawsuit against the victims of last year's mass shooting in Las Vegas , claiming it has no liability for the massacre that killed 58 people. MGM Resorts owns Mandalay Bay. Paddock had set up a firing point with 23 weapons in the Mandalay Bay overlooking the Route 91 Harvest festival, also owned by MGM, on 1 October a year ago. [Full Article...]
Her Maj met with the president on her own, apparently because Prince Charles and Prince William didn't want to meet him. " Prince Charles and Prince William refused to meet with Donald trump before his meeting with the Queen (UK ed.)", - stated in the message. [Full Article...]
Arch-Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg said May faced the choice of rewriting her Brexit plans or splitting the Conservatives and scraping through on the back of opposition votes. But on July 6, May came off the fence and proposed what's become known as her "Chequers Plan", which would keep the United Kingdom close to the EU after it has left, but outside the customs union. [Full Article...]
Guests were also ordered to leave Yosemite Cedar Lodge on Saturday, at the height of the tourist season. The area where the firefighters were working has steep terrain and is largely inaccessible. Varney worked through the night and was driving the bulldozer to cut a firebreak to keep the fire from extending into a nearby community, according to fire chief Nancy Koerperich. [Full Article...]